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FIFTH YEAR, NO. SIX
MONDAY, JANUARY 20, 1958
On Two Points
In hi,s State o£ the Union message Presi
dent hisenlion’er made no mention of the
two dangers that just now threaten tlie Ihfit-
ed States more than any external enemy.
One is nnemjiloyinent. The otiter is farm
poverty.
Yet these two poverties are furnisliing the
seeds for ;i further economic recession tliat
began when the Federal Reserve created an
artificial sc;ircity of money.
.\vaiiabie figures show"-there are nearly
four million people out of tvork at present,
due to lay-offs and falling trade, and an army
of five million jobless is a prospect of late
Chapel Mill recently discovered that it has
many hungry school children. Former farm
proprietors and tenants are hunting jobs in
towns, but the little lonely farmer in remote
districts is finding- it annually harder to
Unemployment pay will keep these un
fortunate at the subsistence level for 26
weeks. After that, they can either starve or
riot.
Meantime small farmers and tenants con
sider themselves lucky if they can maintain
a subsistence. They have no purchasing pow
er, hence their plight started a recession.
make ends meet.
1 he air is filled tvith screams just notv
about “.survival,” and “saving our way of life.”
To allay this fright the miliitary budget is
to be inflated tvhile only one-fifth of the
tax dollar is to go for civil benefits. Mean
time interest is equal to one half of this fifth.
Yet Mr. Eisenhower said in his budget
message, “We will have to limit our demands
for less essential services and benefits pro
vided by the federal government,” at the
same time saying, “Americans have a tra
dition of uniting in action when tlieir free
doms and welfare are threatened.”
Jobless industrial workers and small farm
ers have are already finding their freedoms
and welfare not only threatened but wiped
out. Shall we tell them they must w^ait until
we conquer space?
The Penalty Of Curiosity
1 he fact that a jatti on telephone wires
Monday evening, soon after a fire alarm
sounded, .seriously interfered with the fire
department’s response to a .second blaze, is
evidence more of Chapel Hill’s curiosity than
of its thoughtfulness.
In case of lire, let all unaffected persons
keep off the telephone: That should be
among the Town’s mottoes for the new year.
And coming next to it should be the in
junction to everybody to keep the streets clear
and refrain from a mad rush by automobile
to the scene of action.
Chapel Hill has of course felt much ten
sion owing to the recent scries of blazes sus
pected to be of incendiary origin, but cur
ious telephoning in connection with the
Monday night alarm at Memorial Hospital
caused a 15-minute delay of another alarm
change.
Race relations in (he South have become
worse in the past year, the Tuskegee Insti
tute reports.
This acc:ord.s ivith the 'verdict of Harry S.
Ashmore, Little Rock edior, in his new book,
“.Ml Epitaph for Dixie.” He finds that “ef-
fectiv communication between the races no
longer exists.”
It is a fact attested to by all observers that
neither race is at present aware of the special
difficulties each race has to deal with.
Since the old bridges have broken down,
hew ones must be built.
Americans, regardlesii of complexion, must
cooperate in dealing with all situations or
realize that internal chasms and weaknesses
will not help their country as it faces an ex
acting future.
; One way to restore communications is to
.set up local and community Human Rela
tions Uommitteee in rvhicli each race will
have equal representation.
In Xorth Carolina a beginning has been
made at Durham, and Durham's example can
be follcnved elservhere.
Such committees can reieal the fact that
the South, in the -wordsdf Editor .\shmore,
“faces the practical problem of creating a
new social order.”
In short, it is a condition, not a theory,
that confronts us.
This is the second time in the last hunched
years that the South has had to create ;i new
social order. T'he first one came at the end
of the C^il WAr. Ehe second one is scarcely
less necessitous and urgent.
That it is not to be ushered in tvith bay
onets, air are agreed. I'hen we must find a
different tvay.
Bi-racial commissions will help us take the
first step.
'King David' Reviewed .
A Minor Triumph Of Teamwork,
By BETTY DAY SINCLAIR
(Special for the News Leader)
I am very much in favor of
. the U.NiC. Department of Music.
■ Throughout the year they are
quietly purposeful in their ef
forts to bring to local audiences
: what is best and interesting in
; music. The Tuesday Evening Se
ries particularly deserves praise.
- Sometimes the ambition exceeds
, the talent available, but sin
cerity and taste, coupled with
the delight intrinsic in adven
tures in music, usually make the
concerts a pleasure.
Frequently, however, these
; pleasures are shared by only
? very small audiences. It must
' have been gratifying to have so
• many turn out to enjoy “King
’ David” last Tuesday.
' Probably the most important
work by the contemporary Swiss-
born composer Arthur Honeg
ger, this oratorio narrates the
life of David. In its original
form it as a play by Rene Morax
to which the music was inciden
tal. Now the choral movements,
impressive m their austerity, are
linked by a spoken narrative
which is intensely dramatic.
Tuesday’s performance by the
University Chorus and Orchestra
under Wilton Mason was un
even, but in totality it caught
and conveyed the dramatic pow
er of the piece. Sometimes the
chorus reached considerable
heights, and little instrumental
nuances were competently re
produced.
Earl Wynn was the narrator.
Mr. Wynn, who has a voice as
rich and smooth as a good egg
nog, made heady music of the
beautiful words. The climax “O
how good it W'as to live, I thank
Thee God who gavest me life”
was particularly stirring.
Jo Jurgensen was exciting as
the Witch of Endor. Her incan
tation was all passion and in
tensity. But I wish she could
have placed a curse on those
boors in the audience who found
the incantation amusing—they
turn up too often in artistic ef
forts in Chapel Hill.
Of the three soloists tenor
Gene Strassler was good; Mar
tha Fouse, soprano, and Marilyn
Zachau, contralto, pleased me
less but they were adequate. All
in all it was a minor triumph of
teamwork and a satisfying op
portunity to hear an exciting un
usual work.
(From The Carolina Israelite)
The Soviet “Sputnik” circled
the Earth and the picture of Dor
othy Counts “circled” the Earth
too. Dorothy Counts was the 15-
year-old Negro girl who was forc
ed to leave Harding High School
of Charlotte because of the abuse
and the attempts of physical viol
ence against her. The local school
board had desegregated four or
five junicr high schools, one Ne
gro student to a school, and Dor
othy had been assigned to Har
ding, ("There has been no trouble
at all in the other Charlotte
schools that have been desegre
gated).
In the Dorothy Counts incident
there was a woman, the wife of
a truck driver,’ who led a flock
of teen-agers against the Negro
girl. This woman kept shouting;
“Spit on her, children, spit on
her.”
Well, that was no more repre
sentative of Charlotte than of
America itself or of Trenton, New
Jersey, where that fellow began
shooting innocent people. I
thought of that Trenton fellow
becaus'e this woman had the
same kind of a look on her face.
The momentum of hate carried
on, even after the woman had
been taken into custody, and Dor
othy Counts was forced to leave
the school.
Dr, Frank P., Graham, former
President of the University jf
N.rth Carolina, former United
States Senator, and now Mediator
for the United Nations in the In-
dia-Pakistan dispute, made a
speech before the student body of
the Harding High School. (Dr.
Graham was born in' Charlotte,
and Ids father before him had es-
tablisSied the 9-month school term
for the couTitv) For the first
time the students of Harding
High wei-e briefed on the impor
tance of the Dnrot'iy Counts mat
ter. Her picture went around the
world, published in Scotland,
Britain, Fiance, and Burma; “and
what we do in Charlotte,” said
Do. Frank, “is of vast importance
to the free world.” Dr. Graham
urged the students to invite Dor
othy Counts back to school, and
the students of Harding High
School rose spontaneously and
cheered Dr. Frank Graham in a
dernonstration rarely seen in an
auditorium of a Tar Heel high
school.
The students: have “spoken."
The rest is up, to the adult ad
ministrators. While as yet there
has been only silence since that
great student- demon.stration for
Dr. Graham, it is still ho-’ed that
the formal “invitation” will so
tn. Uo'-othv C-unts in time for
the .February term.
This gesture, too, would, circle
the Earth.
Charlotte can take “all” with
one roll of the dice.
Some Things Should Be Left Un-Said
message from a house on Henderson Street.
A quarter of an hour migiij make a grave
difference to the Eire Department in its ef
forts to control the early stages of a blaze.
.Ynd every unnecessary telephone call,
when an alarm sounds, interferes with the
proper functioning of the telephone ex-
Cliapel Hill residents must be brought to
realize they no longer live in a leisurely vill
age, but in a complex community which has
cast new burdens on municipal ser\ ices.
They can help the P'ire Department by re
fraining from curiosity calls during emerg-
erK;ies, and they can help the Police Depart
ment by reftaining from the excited use of
cars at high speeds.
Let ei erybody keep off the telephone when
the fire siren sounds. And keep out of cars.
C. R. Daniel fay The Neres Leader
Charter Of Recreation Center Corp.
(Editor’s Note: Because, of the
interest in the Chapel Hill-Carr-
boro Recreation Center’s legal
organization, the newly-revised
Charter of the group is being
reprinted herewith. The revised
bylaws are now in the process
of final approval by the Cor
poration’s directors).
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
OF CHAPEL HILL-CARRBORO
RECREATION CENTER, INC.
A Non-Profit Corporation
I. The name of the Corpora
tion is Chapel Hill-Carrboro Re
creation Center, Inc.
II: The period of duration of
the Corporation shall be per
petual.
Ill, The purposes for which the
Corporation is organized are:
(1) To study and appraise the
recreational needs of the com
munity and to cooperate with
other groups in the promotion
and planning bf recreational pro
grams:
(2) . To aid in the designing,
laying out and construction of
recreational facilities.
(3) ; To establish and promote
high recreational standards for
the communities in which it is
authorized to; transact any busi
ness.
(4) To accept gifts, bequests,
devises and endowments; any
endowment shall be invested in
such securities as the Board of
Directors may authorize; and
such gifts, bequests, devises and
all proceeds from invested en
dowments shall be used for car
rying out the purposes for which
they are made and accepted.
(5) To own, conduct and oper
ate amusement parks, play
grounds, picnic grounds, recrea
tional buildings, facilities and
grounds to be used for the pur
pose of amusements and in pro
motion of athletic games con
ducive to the physical, mental,
and moral development of com
munities.
(6) To make and enforce
rules and regulations for proper
administration of its properties
and facilities.
(7) This Corporation .shall have
a right to purchase,-lease, hold,,
develop, mortgage, sell, . convey,
or otherwise acquire or dispose
of any real and personal pro
perty necessary or proper for
carrying out the purpose of this
Corporation in the Towns of
Chapel Hill and/or Carrboro,
North Carolina, and > or the com
munities adjacent thereto, or
The New Berkeley Hrndred
For Mr. Malcolm Jamieson, the
present owner, the dream was as
personal as for the Benjamin Har
rison III, who first settled Berke
ley as a dynastic center—and the
early going was probably even
rougher. With no central heat'ng
in the eighteenth-century mansion
and no nearby wood for the great
fireplaces the slaves once stoked,
at nif»ht young Jamieson kept from
freezing ... by chasing away the
lats .... The days he passed in
chipping away at the red barn
paint that la‘hered the bond-laid
bricks and in making his first mod
est experiments in cultivating the
worn-out land. . - , ’
Like the planters he learned by
doing, and, like the early Harri
sons, he adapted to his day in a
complex, interrelahng operation
that the Harrison settlers of Berke
ley would have admired. With lib
eral u,se of fer ili^er, he hag re
stored six hundred acres, some in
crop production (corn, barley, and
soy beans) and some in grassland
which supports three hundred
Hereford cattle, fitty of which are
the nucleus of a;
Where the field hd
in the sun, tractoii
lie sod drill road
baked land, and
ments have doveloi
tern for Ihe winte
in attention to dete
son’s shipping.
For beauty an:
Jamieson planted il
hundred trees to r
in long-dead cam:
beauty and proh
thousands of bd
wliich not only s
but sell ill the pre
twist, a herd of tw.
find good fora''e (
around the boxw.
fattening, perfon
chores that once oi
of the less powerft
All these streni:
continue Berkeley;
plantation represes
fulness and hard v
and the concentra
which would make:
individual if apj
fields.—From “TW
tion,” by CL fiord j
Chips That Fa
Received with thanks snap
shot of two noble-looking
and strong-featured men in-
scrilied: “Carl Sandbnrg and
Harry Golden looking
to-
waixl Chapel Hill.”
There is a background of
sky and pines, and a suggest
ed atmosphere of piety mixed
with geniality.
It is to be hoped their
looking totvard Chapel Hill
is not to he in vain.
What could these twain
have talked about?
Frtnnan saying what Eis-
enhotver needs is a boss?
Dulles ditto?
Who in 1958 sliould be
elsewhere in the State of North
Carolina and to erect, equip, and
maintain clubhouses, recreation
halls, and other appropriate
buildings or facilities for any
and all indoor and/or outdoor
recreational program.s or athle
tic contests for the use of its
invited guests.
IV: Voting members of the Cor
poration snail be those persons
in the communities who annual
ly contribute $10 or more for
the programs and activities of
the Corporation and as such each
member shall have one vote at
each membership meeting. Par
ticipation and use of its property
shall be under the approval and
direction of its Board of Direc-
tirs, and whenever the Corpora
tion is dissolved, ceases to be
active, or is suspeded no person
shall have any interest or claim
upon the profits or assets of the
Corporation and such property
corporators and such other per
sons as the incorporators may
elect thereto shall constitute the
initial Board of Directors of the
Corporation. One-third of the in
itial membership shall serve for
one year, one-third shall serve
for two years, and one-third shall
serve for three years: Subse
quent terms of the Directors
shall be for three years. The re
maining members of the Board
of Directors by a majority vote
of these present shall fill any
vacancies which may occur on
the Board between the annual
membership meetings and such
members shall serve for the re
mainder of the term to which
elected.
VI: The address of the initial
registered office of the Corpor
ation is Scott Building, Chapel
Hill, N. C., and the initial reg
istered agent of the 'Corporation
at suan address is L. J. Phipps.
VH. The number of directors
constituting the initial Board of
Directors shall be 42 and the
names and addresses of the per
sons who are to serve as Direc
tors until the first meeting of
the Corporation or until their
successors are elected and qual
ified are: (list of directors).
VIII: The names and addresses
of all of the incorporators are;
(list of incorporators).
IX. In addition to the powers
granted corporations under the
laws of the State of Sorth Caro
lina, the Corporation shall have
full power and authority to own
properties, both real and per
sonal, for use in carrying out
the purposes for which the Cor
poration is formed.
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men in tlie U. S
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Monday and I
13th and i-itli, V
rainy tvith a da
of clouds rnni
around the hoi
tics show- that t'
to ite heavy rain 1
dates annually. '
find tliat just .
dates the circling
through a dense;
dust, formed c
micro-meteoritet
is a theory they
densation of 1
makes rain.
Such facts ’
more and more 1
more and more
to cut paths, iht
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or assets shall become the pro
perty of, the Towns of Chapel
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cessors, for liquidation and use
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V. The Board of Directors of
the Corporation shall be limited
to 48 members and the initial in-
Summit Talks, If... But Then There's Still The Shadow Of Dulles...
? President Eisenhorver’s letter to
Sotiet Premier Bulganin left the
door open for an east-rvest summit
pieeting, but it posted the same
conditions that have been unac-
eeptable thus far to the Kremlin
are logical,
bosses.
Tire Ih S. provisos
of course: Ft makes 'es.senfial sense
/tliat,the tpp-level conference should
be preceded by diplomatic negoti
ations and a meeting of the foreign
mini.sters to dratv up an agenda
lor the talks.
But these are illogical times, and
the propagandic value of Bulgan
in’s repeated call for a “peacemak
ing” summit session deriveis its
force From h(>ldness, not cold rea
son. To coiTipete successfully for
the re,spect of the uncommitiedCoimcil to prevent that both Irom
nations, the United States and the working out peaceful .jnetho.ds for
western powers must somehowseitling international disputes,
seize the offensive ivith positive, Maybe he had the “positive ap-
reasonable proposals looking to-jrroacli m mind when iie sug-
ward a test of Rn.ssia’s sinceritv. ge.sted that any summit meeting
Perhaps that rvas President Fis-must consider die situation ot Rus-
enhower’s aini in sngge.sting thatsia’s satellite nations.
Russia and the U. S. make a “gen- Biith are new proposids sound
tleman’s "agreement ” . iu)i toyiseand imaginati\'C' — ought to
the veto in . the U. X'. Securityappeal to the people ot me capthe
countries.
The rest of the note has a brok
en-record familiarity.
Perhajis the Smlet leaders tvill
rerersc their held and decide to
accept the U. S. conditions.. The
door is at least cracked. Just over
the threshold, however^ we seem to
detect the unyielding shadow of
John Eo.ster Dulles.—7'//c Charlatle
Observer
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